Oxidious - Extreme Thermaltake Kandalf Casemod

Guest writer Olivier tackles this high end enclosure, building an XBOX 1 game console inside, a small TFT, a truckload of LEDs and custom made PCB to control them all. Read on to find out how he turned a run of the mill Thermaltake Kandalf into an entertainment center.

Paint Combo and New I/O Control Panel

Assembling - a new color combo

This doesn’t look half bad; let’s continue with the front side.

Making a custom 5.25” front panel

I bought a 2mm thick aluminum plate which will serve as a new mounting plate for the front panel of the case.

A few hours of drilling and cutting later I ended up with a nearly complete new multi functional panel:

The final touches took another few hours to finish, but the end result was more than okay:

And after a fresh coat of paint it’s ready for usage:

Then it was time to put in all the new components, I had little room to work in as everything had to fit inside the 5.25” bay area.

The control panel holds:

Three rheobus at the top which control four RGB leds

Top right corner has ON/OFF button for the PC as well as the power and HDD leds.

In the middle a 5” TFT

To the left of the TFT three coaxial connections

To the right of the TFT four buttons for control of brightness/contrast and volume

Under the TFT a control unit for 2 blue and 2 red CCFL’s;

At each side of that control unit speakers which belong to the TFT screen

Last but not least, 7 switches that control LEDs which are placed in- and outside the case.